In yet another sign that this is the wrong kind of economy in which to have not updated your business model for the electronic age (just Google “publisher” and “layoff”), Realms of Fantasy is stopping production with their April issue.
I’m not even going to go look at how few pro publishers of short fantasy that leaves. I don’t want to know.
Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
LAME. Must everything uplifting tank? How about curtailing the production of cheesy drugstore romances first, people?!
Juniper, does it help if I add that the publisher of the National Enquirer and the Star is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy?
Yes.